Jessica Gelt

Writer

If it’s entertaining, Jessica Gelt has likely covered it. Since joining The Times in 2003, she has written about television, music, movies, books, art, fashion, food, cocktails and more. She once played bass in a band with an inexplicably large following in Spain, and still gets stopped by fans (OK, maybe a fan) on the streets of Barcelona. She loves dive bars and very dry martinis with olives, though never simultaneously.

Recent Articles

2017 Grammy nominations: The nominees, reactions and how Beyoncé and Chance the Rapper made history Dec. 7, 2016, 11:45 a.m. The Grammy nominations are here and Beyoncé leads the pack with nine nominations, followed by Drake, Rihanna, and Kanye West with eight apiece and Chance the Rapper with...

To be, or not to be a bottle of balsamic vinegar, that is the question. It really was the question, at least when the unorthodox British performance troupe Forced Entertainment conceived of its latest project, “Table Top Shakespeare,” which runs Tuesday through Saturday at the Center for the Art...

They live better than you and I. That’s the word on the 65 horses that star in the touring show “Odysseo” by Cavalia, playing in Irvine through Jan. 8. They eat five square meals a day, each meted out with nutritional precision by three veterinary technicians according to individual dietary needs....

Disney’s island adventure “Moana” topped the box office going into the five-day Thanksgiving weekend Wednesday, raking in an estimated $15.7 million and beating “Frozen’s” $15.1 million first-day record during the same time period in 2013. If the film continues to track ahead of expectations it...

Lena Hall stares into the mirror in her dressing room backstage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, where she is making musical history in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” To her right is a short, brown wig with sideburns. A single, sorrowful tendril of hair curls gently over the white plastic foam...

When children’s book author and illustrator Jon Klassen visits schools to read his new book, “We Found a Hat,” he also likes to read “The Green Ribbon” from a collection of scary children’s stories by Alvin Schwartz titled “In a Dark, Dark Room.” The story is about a girl named Jenny who won’t...

After operating as a roving “museum without walls,” the Claremont Museum of Art is scheduled to open its new permanent home Sunday at the Claremont Depot. The former train station, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was renovated into two museum gallery spaces: an atrium that...